Catholic Churches of NCC includes: Saint Patrick Parish Seneca WI; Saint Philip Parish Rolling Ground WI; Saint Mary Parish Gays Mills WI; St James Cemetery Rising Sun WI; Kneeland Cemetery Seneca WI catholicchurchesofncc.com

          Sunday, May 10^th  the 6^th Sunday of Easter and  Mother's Day

A Blessed and Joyful Mother's Day to all our Mothers!

St. Mary, St. Patrick, St. Philip Parishes

Mailing address for all three parishes:  PO Box 35, Seneca WI 54654

Website:  https://www.catholicchurchesofncc.com

Confessions: Normally, 30 minutes before every Mass and by appointment.

Normal Monthly Eucharistic Adoration:

St. Patrick: First Friday after the 8:30 AM Mass

St. Philip: First Sunday after the 10:30 AM Mass

Mass Intentions This Week

Pastor: Fr. Tom Huff – Rectory 608-734-3252 email: frtomhuff@gmail.com

Bookkeeper, Bulletin, Mass Intentions, Membership: Kevin Murray 608-391-0434 or

608-734-3931 email: secretary@ncc.diolcparish.org

New Bulletin Information Deadline: Mondays at 6:00 PM. Bulletin is posted on our website.

UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS

St. Mary Announcements:

Rosary – 30 minutes before Mass

First Sunday Potluck Brunch after Mass each first Sunday of the month. All are welcome, dish to share is appreciated, but not required. Next potluck is Sunday, June 7^th.

Saint Mary’s is open 7:00am – 7:00pm daily. Please feel free to come and pray and light a candle if you would like.

Food Pantry Donations can be left in the basket in the rear of the Church.

St. Philip Announcements:

St. Philip Candles: Contact Bonnie Murphy. The cost is $5 per candle.

Food Pantry items are needed. Please leave any gift at the rear of the Church.

Candle Intentions are: Main Altar Candles for the health of Wanda Mather and in Memory Gorden Mather.

St. Patrick Announcements:

The St Patrick's PCCW will be participating in Rummage on the River, Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16 - 8 am - 4 pm each day. Start organizing your donations and bring them to the hall beginning in May (after CCD is finished). We will request free will donations for items purchased. Please sign up to work during setup and throughout the days of the sale (forms are located in the back of church). Contact Susie Garfoot at 608-317-0515 with any questions or suggestions.

Tri-Parish Announcements:

For Mass Intentions, if donating by check, please make all checks payable to: St. Mary Stipend Fund. (NOTE:  There is only one Mass Stipend Fund for the three parishes)

Tri-Parish Adult Faith Study will be at St. Mary’s on Tuesday, May 5^th at 7:00 PM.

The Weekly Bulletin is available on our parishes website, this is the link to the bulletin page, updated every Friday: https://www.catholicchurchesofncc.com/bulletins

Other Announcements:

My wife and I would like to thank everyone who has supported us and our family during our son Connor’s ongoing medical crisis. The prayers and support of our fellow Christians have been overwhelming, and has showed us the great Christian love, caring, and charity shared by all in His Holy Church, especially our local Churches. We want to say thank you very much to you all. Kevin & Risha Murray

What is “Rebuild My Church”?

The Rebuild My Church Initiative exists to accompany the priests, people, and parishes of the Diocese of La Crosse as we go through a process of pastoral planning that will allow us to live more abundantly as disciples of Jesus who make disciples. Change is inevitable, but we want to choose changes that build a culture of discipleship and accompaniment in our parishes. Piloting of local pastoral planning begins in August. 

Income from Last Week

Tri-Parish Prayer List – We want to pray for the sick and others in our parishes who need ongoing prayer. To be placed on or to place someone on our prayer list, please call: Sue Peterson 608-735-4865, Bonnie Murphy 608-386-4954, or Ica Boylen 608-734-3287.

Fulton J. Sheen Prayer Request

Eternal Father, You alone grant us every blessing in Heaven and on earth, through the

redemptive mission of Your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, and by the working of the Holy Spirit.

If it be according to Your Will, glorify Your servant, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by granting the favor I now request through his prayerful intercession:

The miraculous healing of Connor Murray

I make this prayer confidently through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Imprimatur: +Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C., Bishop of Peoria

DIVINE MERCY IN MY SOUL - “Today the Lord said to me, …The greater the misery of a soul, the greater its right to My mercy; Urge all souls to trust in the unfathomable abyss of My mercy, because I want to save them all. On the cross, the fountain of My mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls – no one have I excluded!” ( Diary, 1182 )

Priest’s Corner: If you love me, you will keep my commandments

Today's Gospel comes from Jesus at the Last Supper, which highlights several important themes of our Catholic Faith: First; true love for Jesus is not primarily emotional - but is primarily revealed through our actions by our obedience to Him and the teachings of His Church. Second; such obedience leads to a deeper, more intimate relationship where the believer is loved by both Jesus and the Father. Third; Jesus will not leave us orphans when He ascends into heaven, as the Father will give us another Advocate to be with us always, Who is the Holy Spirit of truth. Fourth; some in the world will not accept the Holy Spirit because they neither see nor know the Father.

Saint Peter in the second readings reminds those of us who do see and know the Father through Jesus and His Church and have accepted the Gift of the Holy Spirit the need to: Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear. . . .

Jesus also tells those who are willing to obey Him and His teachings: If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. May each one of us be willing to obey Jesus and His teachings, that we come to know the truth of our Lord, which in turn will allow us to experience what it means to be truly free.

What Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace by Geofrey Douglas (April 6, 2026)

The risk is not that AI will become human. It is that people will begin treating it as though it were.

PART 3

Continued from previous bulletin . . . Faithful engagement with AI will not come naturally. The pace of development outruns reflection almost by design, and human beings are not disinterested evaluators of tools that promise efficiency and ease. This is precisely why grounding our thinking now — before urgency overtakes wisdom — matters so much. Christians, whether in families, schools, and institutions, therefore share responsibility for evaluating new technologies not only by what they allow us to do, but by the kind of character they shape and the attention and desires they form. A few convictions are worth holding onto.

The first is the simplest: every human being is made in the image of God, possessing a dignity that no created system can reproduce. This has practical consequences. It means resisting casual talk about AI “personhood” or “consciousness” as that language drifts into everyday use. What makes a human being irreplaceable is not intelligence or output, but something that cannot be coded — the image of God.

The second is that discipleship sometimes requires declining what technology makes possible. Sustained attention and embodied relationships are not accidents of pre-digital life — they are genuine goods, and they are fragile. There may be times when wisdom means using less than what is available, or setting aside AI-generated material precisely because the struggle of working something out yourself is part of the good.

The third is to hold both gratitude and skepticism at once. AI can be received as a gift — one expression of common grace, offering tools that serve human life and work. But not every new capability represents genuine progress. The question is not only what technology makes possible. It is what it makes of us. And in the end, every new tool should pass a simple test: does it lead us to better love God and care for others?

The question artificial intelligence poses is, in the end, a question about us. Tools do not bear responsibility for how they are used. Image-bearers do. We are not called to fear what we’ve made. But neither should we surrender to it. Instead, we are called to govern it with wisdom and humility — for in the end, it is not our machines that define us, but the God whose image we bear. THE END